Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

Use muffin tins to create a simple, affordable and fun game to help your child practice their vocabulary!

Use this interactive activity to help your third-grade child develop vocabulary skills and make a flipbook.

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

Here's a fun activity to show your child how to use prefixes and root words to "root out" the meaning of a word!

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

Knowing how to use quotation marks to write character dialog is an important skill for developing writers. Here's a fun way to get your child writing speech.

There's only one word that rhymes with orange. This is bad news for poets who want to write about oranges. But what if they use word play instead?

Help your child put a new spin on her favorite myth by turning it into a mad lib! Guaranteed to bring the giggles, this fun activity also packs in the learning.

In this cooler-than-average writing activity, your child uses paint chips and words to write a story!

Here's a great activity to get your child using imagination and artistic skills to create a handmade vocabulary book, complete with illustrations!

Here's a fun holiday activity that will have you and your child singing, laughing, and using a thesaurus!

Communicating using the written word doesn't have to be tough! It can be as simple and fun as composing a comic strip.

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

This game will help build your child's word bank as she competes with family members for the "Word of the Day" champion title.

Help your child navigate their own passion for reading with a bookmark that celebrates their favorite moments, allowing them to relive them again and again.

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

Help your fourth grader make a homemade recipe book that's eye-catching, simple to construct and perfect for holding all of her favorite recipes!

Refresh your third grader's understanding of idioms with this hands-on art activity that encourages him to manipulate clay to represent his favorite idiom.

Help your fourth grader affirm her place in the family and in the march of recent history with this family album project.

Saturn is the ringed planet in our solar system, a gas giant with rings made of ice and dust. Let's make a cool scale model with an old CD and some glitter!

Talk about ice cream while helping your 4th grader work on crucial punctuation skills.

Turn your living room into a sophisticated café while your child and their friends explore the world of poetry with this unique and entertaining party idea.